East Cemetery - Highgate Cemetery Highgate Cemetery East Cemetery Home to illustrious figures of the nineteenth century as well as eminent people of our own time A plot at Highgate Cemetery has always been much sought after. To cater for demand, the cemetery company opened the East side extension in 1860. It is here that you will find buried many famous names, along with interesting and varied memorials. One of the greatest Victorian writers, and recognised as such in her own lifeteime Tours You can wander the East Cemetery by yourself, but why not discover more by coming on a tour with one of our expert volunteer guides? Mostly tours are on Saturday at 2pm. They don't run every Saturday, so please click on the 'Book Now' button to see forthcoming dates. The tour of the East Cemetery lasts around 60 minutes and is in English. The tour takes place even if it’s raining and the paths are steep and sometimes muddy so please do wear appropriate footwear. Photography is allowed with small hand-held camera for personal use only. No food or drink. Strong winds or icy conditions may require us to cancel the tour for safety reasons. If we are forced to cancel you will receive a full refund.

East Cemetery Tour Ticket prices Adults £8; Children £4; Members £4. Prices include entrance to the East Cemetery only on the day of your tour. Tickets are not refundable or exchangeable. Please Note: The Catacombs, Egyptian Avenue and the Circle of Lebanon are in the West Cemetery and are not visited on this tour. Events A talk by Michael Pointon Max Wall, who is buried in Highgate Cemetery East, is one of the great British comedians of the 20th century, as anyone who saw his character Professor Wallofski will at… A great success... Highgate Cemetery was such a success that the East side was opened in 1860. It was also run by the London Cemetery Company. When Karl Marx was buried here the cemetery was a private profit-making commercial operation. However, as it filled up it became uneconomic as a private concern, and was rescued by the Friends of Highgate Cemetery. Burials have continued here since the Friends took over in 1981 and the cemetery continues to serve the needs of North London. Group visits School groups - East Cemetery We charge £1 per pupil and the maximum group size is 25.

All pupils under 18 years must be accompanied by an adult, with a minimum ratio of 1 adult to ten pupils. Tours should be booked in advance. Please telephone 020 8347 2475 to book and for further information. Other groups - East Cemetery Please telephone 020 8347 2475 to discuss your requirements or make a booking. Different arrangements apply for group visits to the West Cemetery . Karl Marx Visitors flock from all around the world to see the grave of Karl Marx, whose political philosophy has had such an impact on the modern world. He was originally buried in his wife's grave on a small side path, but in 1956 a new monument featuring a gigantic bust by the socialist sculptor Laurence Bradshaw was installed in a more prominent location. Funds were raised by the Marx Memorial Fund, set up by the Communist Party in 1955. Since then, many people who have been inspired by his thinking have been buried nearby – among them Yusuf Dadoo, the South African communist and anti-apartheid activist, and Claudia Jones, political activist and founder of the Notting Hill Carnival.

Ironically his ideological antithesis, the liberal political theorist Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), is buried almost directly opposite. Patrick Caulfield Although often referred to as a 'Pop' artist, Patrick Caulfield disliked being associated with that movement. Nevertheless, he shared with those artists a certain objective and dispassionate style in his art. A resident of Belsize Park, north London, it was only natural that Caulfield (1936-2005) should choose to be buried in Highgate Cemetery. But his memorial is a complete surprise. He designed it himself, and there is nothing like it anywhere. The letters D E A D are pierced through a sleek slab of stone, a stark statement of fact presented with the same objectivity as his paintings. His memorial speaks tellingly about an impassive man who rarely showed his inner passions. George Eliot It comes as a surprise to many high school students reading ‘Middlemarch’ that its author, George Eliot (1819-80), was in fact a woman writing under a pseudonym.

From 1880 known as Mary Ann Cross, the name that appears on her memorial, she first used the name ‘George Eliot’ in 1857. ‘George’ was the name of her partner, the critic George Henry Lewes (1817-78) whom she was buried alongside in Highgate Cemetery, and she chose ‘Eliot’ because it was ‘a good mouth-filling, easily pronounced word’. Her denial of Christian faith and her irregular life meant that she was not buried in Westminster Abbey, but her greatness was finally recognised with the erection of a plaque there on the centenary of her death in 1980. Close by Eliot and Lewes at Highgate are a number of their friends and associates, such as the publisher John Chapman (1821-94), diarist Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867), and secularist George Holyoake (1817-1906).

Some East Cemetery memorials Jeremy Beadle, presenter, writer and producer Richard 'Stoney' Smith, patented Hovis high wheatgerm flour process Paul Foot, investigative journalist, political campaigner and author Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian Marxist theorist and leader of worker-communist movement Max Wall, comedian and actor Anna Mahler, Austrian sculptor Opening times Open daily except Christmas day and Boxing day. Different opening arrangements apply to the East and West. The hours below are those for November to February. East Cemetery The East Cemetery is where Karl Marx is buried. Visitors may roam freely on this side, but there is an entrance charge. Monday to Friday: 10am to 4pm last admission 3.30pm Weekends and public holidays: 11am to 4pm last admission 3.30pm We may close for short periods to facilitate funerals. In addition, for your safety, strong winds or icy weather may occasionally require us to close the cemetery to visitors. Admission: £4 adults, children under 18 and Members free. School groups £1 per child. Find out more about the East Cemetery including our occasional tours. West Cemetery Admission to the West Cemetery is by guided tour only.

For further information and to book, see the 'Tours' section at Visit > West Cemetery Planning ahead? From March to October inclusive the East Cemetery closes at 5pm, with last admission at 4.30pm, and at weekends the last West tour of the day leaves at 4pm. From November to February inclusive the East Cemetery closes at 4pm, with last admission at 3.30pm, and at weekends the last West tour of the day leaves at 3pm. How to get here Download our handy map By tube ARCHWAY tube, High Barnet branch, Northern line. (Don’t go to Highgate tube – it's a much longer walk!). Take the Highgate Hill exit. Then either take a bus (210,143, 271) two stops to Waterlow Park or walk up Highgate Hill. It’s then a very pleasant five minute stroll through Waterlow Park to our gates. The tube system is often affected by engineering works and station closures. Please check your journey in advance at . By bus C2 stops at Parliament Hill Fields. C11 stops at Brookfield Park.

Buses 143, 210 and 271 stop at Waterlow Park on Highgate Hill. By road There is no off-street visitor parking. Parking restrictions are in place on the surrounding streets between 10am and 12 noon Monday to Friday. After those times and at weekends, on-street parking is free. Note that there is no access to Swain’s Lane from the north. Bicycle There is a bicycle rack outside the West Cemetery gates. Contact us General enquiries 020 8340 1834 Burials and memorials 020 8347 2471 Photography requests & group visits 020 8347 2475 Volunteering 020 8347 2475 The cemetery can get muddy underfoot, so do wear sensible shoes. Photography Still photography of graves is allowed for personal use only. We don't allow the cemetery to be used as a backdrop for unrelated subjects such as fashion shoots. No video. You can use a tripod, but not on tours. Animals No animals are permitted with the exception of assistance dogs.

More rules You can download a full set of our rules here . © 2017 Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust. Registered Charity No. 1058392. Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in England No. 3157806. Registered office Swain’s Lane, London N6 6PJ Karl Marx grave : London Remembers, Aiming to capture all memorials in London {Incised in gold letters in the granite:} Workers of all lands unite Karl Marx {On an old white marble stone:} Jenny von Westphalan, the beloved wife of Karl Marx, born 12th February 1814, died 2nd December 1881. And Karl Marx, born May 5th 1818, died March 14th 1883. And Harry Longuet, their grandson, born July 4th 1878, died March 20th 1883. And Helena Demuth, born January 1st 1823, died November 4th 1890.

And Eleanor Marx, daughter of Karl Marx, born January 16th 1856, died March 31st 1898. {Incised in gold letters in the granite:} The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point is to change it. Bronze head on granite plinth with gold leaf inscriptions. Site: Karl Marx grave (1 memorial) N6, Swain's Lane, Highgate Cemetery - East As a rule we don't "do" graves but here's an exception. More a memorial than a grave this edifice has always attracted huge numbers of visitors. In 1884, on the first anniversary of Marx's death, between 5 and 6,000 people marched from Tottenham Court Road to the grave only to be turned away by police who, afraid of riots, had closed the cemetery. Marx was initially buried about 100m north but in 1956, in response to the interest in the grave, it was moved to its present location and this impressive memorial erected, funded by the British Communist Party. The original gravestone is incorporated into the plinth.

A ceremony is still held here annually on the anniversary of his death, to the minute, at 2.30 pm. Is Marx's grave a communist plot? Highgate Cemetery, London, England Highgate Cemetery Rent a Castle Whether it's a folly for 2 or a fort for 20, try our castles for rent page. By Ben Johnson | Comments Perhaps one of our more unusual historical destinations, Highgate Cemetery is a famous cemetery located in Highgate, London . The cemetery in its original form (the older, Western part) was consecrated by the Bishop of London on 20th May 1839. It was part of an initiative to provide seven large, modern cemeteries to ring the city of London. The inner-city cemeteries, mostly the graveyards of individual churches, had long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a health hazard and an undignified way to treat the dead. The first inhumation at Highgate Cemetery took place on the 26th May, and was of Elizabeth Jackson, a 36 year old spinster of Golden Square in Soho.

Perched on a hill above the smoke and filth of the city, Highgate Cemetery soon became a fashionable place for burials and was much admired and visited. The Victorian romantic attitude to death and its presentation led to the creation of a labyrinth of Egyptian sepulchres and a wealth of Gothic tombs and buildings. The rows of silent stone angels have born witness to pomp and ceremony as well as to some dreadful exhumations…read on! In 1854 the eastern part of the cemetery was opened, across Swains Lane from the original. These avenues of death entomb poets, painters, princes and paupers. There at least 850 notable people buried at Highgate including 18 Royal Academicians, 6 Lord Mayors of London and 48 Fellows of the Royal Society. Although perhaps its most famous occupant is Karl Marx, several other people worthy of mention are also buried here including: Edward Hodges Baily - sculptor Karl Heinrich Marx - father of Communism Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal – model of the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood Today the cemetery's grounds are full of mature trees, shrubbery and wildflowers that provide a haven for birds and small animals.

The Egyptian Avenue and the Circle of Lebanon (topped by a huge Cedar of Lebanon) feature tombs, vaults and winding paths through the hillside. For its protection, the oldest section, with its impressive collection of Victorian mausoleums and gravestones plus elaborately carved tombs, allows admission only in tour groups. The newer section, which contains most of the angel statuary, can be toured unescorted. For further detailed information concerning opening times, dates, directions and details of the escorted tours visit the Friends of Highgate Cemetery web site. And back to some of those people of note and their stories… Edward Hodges Baily. Edward Hodges Baily was a British sculptor who was born in Bristol on 10th March 1788. Edward’s father was a celebrated carver of figureheads for ships. Even at school the Edward demonstrated his natural talent producing numerous wax models and busts of his school friends. Two pieces of his early work were shown to the master sculptor J. Flaxman, who was so impressed with them that he brought Edward back to London as his pupil. In 1809 he entered the academy schools.

Edward was awarded the academy gold medal for a model of in 1811. In 1821 he exhibited one of his best works, Eve at the Fountain. He was responsible for the carvings on the south side of the Marble Arch in Hyde Park, and produced many busts and statues, with perhaps the most famous of all Nelson in Trafalgar Square. Rowland Hill Rowland Hill is the man usually credited with the invention of the modern postal service. Hill was born at Kidderminster in Worcestershire on 3rd December 1795 and for a time he was a teacher. He published his most famous pamphlet Post Office Reform: its Importance and Practicability in 1837, when he was 42. Hill wrote in his reform plan about the need for pre-printed envelopes and adhesive postage stamps. He also called for a uniform low rate of one penny a letter to anywhere in the British Isles . Previously, postage had depended on distance and the number of sheets of paper; now, one penny could send a letter anywhere in the country.

This was a lower rate than before, when the cost of postage was usually more than 4d, and with the new reform the sender paid for the cost of postage rather than the receiver. The lower cost made communication more affordable to the masses. The uniform penny postage was introduced on 10 January 1840, four months before stamps were issued on 6 May 1840. Rowland Hill died on 27th August 1879. John Singleton Copley John Singleton Copley was an American artist, famous for his portraits of important New England society figures. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, his portraits were different in that they tended to portray their subjects with artifacts that were indicative of their lives. Copley travelled to England in 1774 to continue painting there. His new works focused mainly on historical themes. He died in London on 9th September 1815. George Eliot George Eliot was the pen name of English female novelist Mary Ann Evans.

Mary was born on 22nd November 1819 on a farm near Nuneaton in Warwickshire , she used many of her real-life experiences in her books, which she wrote under a man's name in order to improve her chances of publication. She defied the convention of the day by living with George Henry Lewes, a fellow writer, who died in 1878. On 6th May 1880 she married her ‘toy-boy’ friend, John Cross, an American banker, who was 20 years her junior. They honeymooned in Venice and, it is reported, that Cross celebrated their wedding night by jumping from their hotel balcony into the Grand Canal. She died in London of a kidney ailment. Her works include:The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871), Daniel Deronda(1876). She also wrote a considerable amount of fine poetry. Michael Faraday Michael Faraday was a British engineer who contributed to the modern understanding of electromagnetism and invented the Bunsen burner.

Michael was born on 22nd September 1791, near the Elephant & Castle, London. At fourteen he was apprenticed as a book-binder and during his seven year apprenticeship developed an interest in science. After he sent Humphrey Davy a sample of notes that he had made, Davy employed Faraday as his assistant. In a class-ridden society, Faraday was not considered to be a gentleman, and it is said that Davy's wife refused to treat him as an equal and would not associate with him socially. Faraday’s greatest work was with electricity. In 1821, he built two devices to produce what he called electromagnetic rotation. The resulting electric generator used magnets to generate electricity. These experiments and inventions form the foundation of modern electromagnetic technology. Ten years later, in 1831, he began his great series of experiments in which he discovered electromagnetic induction. His demonstrations proving the concept that electric current produced magnetism. He gave a successful series of lectures at the Royal Institution, entitled `The Natural History of a candle'; this was the origin of the Christmas lectures for young people that are still given there every year.

Faraday died at his house at Hampton Court on August 25, 1867. The unit of capacitance, the farad is named after him. William Friese-Greene William Friese-Greene (born William Edward Green), was a photographer and prolific inventor. He is principally known as a pioneer in the field of motion pictures and is credited by some as the inventor of cinematography. William Edward Green was born on 7th September 1855 in College Street, Bristol. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Hospital. In 1869 he became an apprentice to a photographer named Maurice Guttenberg. William quickly took to the work and by 1875 he had set up his own studios in Bath and Bristol, and later expanded his business with two further studios in London and Brighton. He married Helena Friese on 24th March 1874, and decided to add that artistic touch by modifing his name to include her maiden name. It was in Bath that William made the acquaintance of John Arthur Roebuck Rudge, an inventor of magic lanterns.

Rudge had devised a lantern, the 'Biophantoscope', which could display seven slides in rapid succession, giving the illusion of movement. William found the idea amazing and started work on his own camera - a camera to record real movement as it occurred. He realised that glass plates would never be a practical medium for true moving pictures and in 1885 he began to experiment with oiled paper and two years later was experimenting with celluloid as a medium for motion picture cameras. Early one Sunday morning in January 1889, William took his new camera, a box about a foot square with a handle projecting at the side, to Hyde Park. He placed the camera on a tripod and exposed 20 feet of film - his subjects, "leisurely pedestrians, open-topped buses and hansom cabs with trotting horses". He rushed to his studio near Piccadilly were he developed the celluloid film, becoming the first man ever to see moving pictures on a screen. Patent No. 10,131, for a camera with a single lens to record movement was registered on 10th May 1890, but the making of the camera had bankrupt William.

And so to cover his debts, he sold the rights to his patent for £500. The first renewal fee was never paid and the patent eventually lapsed in 1894. The Lumiere brothers patented Le Cin’matographe in March one year later in 1895! In 1921 William was attending a film and cinema industry meeting in London to discuss the current poor state of the British film industry. Disturbed by the proceedings he got to his feet to speak but soon became incoherent. He was assisted to his seat, and shortly afterward slumped forward and died. William Friese-Greene died a pauper, and on the hour of his funeral, all the cinemas in Britain halted their films and held a two-minute silence in belated respect to 'The Father of the Motion Picture'. Henry Moore RA Henry Moore was born in York 1831, the second of thirteen sons. He was educated in York , and received tuition in art from his father, before entering the RA in 1853. His early work involved mainly landscapes, but he later specialised in seascapes of the English Channel. He was regarded as the leading English marine painter of his time.

He married Mary, daughter of Robert Bollans of York in May 1860. They lived in Hampstead, and he died in Ramsgate in the summer of 1895. Moore was a Yorkshireman, and it is more than likely that it was his straightforward Yorkshire tact that resulted in the rather late official recognition of his talent and standing. Karl Marx Marx was born into a progressive Jewish family in Trier, Prussia (now a part of Germany) on 5th May 1818. His father Herschel was a lawyer. The Marx family was very liberal and the Marx household hosted many visiting intellectuals and artists through Karl's early life. Marx first enrolled in the University of Bonn in 1833 to study law. Bonn was a notorious party school, and Marx did poorly as he spent most of his time singing songs in beer halls. The next year, his father made him transfer to the far more serious and academically oriented Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. It was there, that his interests turned to philosophy. Marx then moved to France and it was in Paris that he met and began working with his life-long collaborator Friedrich Engels.

After he was forced to leave Paris for his writings, he and Engels moved to Brussels. In Brussels they co-wrote several works which ultimately lay the foundation for Marx and Engels' most famous work, The Communist Manifesto, first published on February 21, 1848. This work was commissioned by the Communist League (formerly, the League of the Just), an organization of German emigrés whom Marx had met in London. That year Europe experienced revolutionary upheaval; a working-class movement seized power from king Louis Philippe in France and invited Marx to return to Paris. When this government collapsed in 1849, Marx moved to London. In London Marx also dedicated himself to historical and theoretical works, the most famous of which is the multivolume Das Kapital (Capital: A Critique of Political Economy), first published in 1867. Marx died in London on 14th March 1883, and is buried in Highgate Cemetery. And the rest is history … … World War I led to the Russian Revolution and the ascendence of Vladimir Lenin's leadership of the communist movement.

Lenin claimed to be both the philosophical and political heir to Marx, and developed a political program, called Leninism, which called for revolution organised and led by the Communist Party. After Lenin's death, the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, seized control of the Party and proceeded to murder millions of his own people. And in China, Mao Zedong also claimed to be an heir to Marx, and led a communist revolution there. Elizabeth Siddal Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal was said to be the epitome of aesthetic womanhood. Her mournful beauty appears time and again in the portraits of the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood. In William Holman Hunt's 'Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus', she appears as a Sylvia. In John Everett Millais's 'Ophelia' she lies amongst the grassy water plants. But it is with Gabriel Dante Rossetti that Siddal's name will be best remembered. It was Walter Deverall, honorary artist of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who discovered Elisabeth Siddal. Looking through the window of a hat shop near Piccadilly whilst shopping with his mother, Deverall noticed the striking looks of the milliner's assistant.

Introducing her to his fellow artists, Rossetti, Millais and Hunt, the three founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Elizabeth's full and sensual lips and waist length auburn hair, soon made her their favourite model. But the intense demands placed on her by the three artists nearly killed her. In 1852, Millais composed and painted the famed portrait of 'Ophelia' in his converted greenhouse studio. For this work Elizabeth was required to lie day after day in a bath of luke-warm water, from which she ultimately contracted pneumonia. None of the three young men found her more attractive or alluring than the poet and painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The attraction proved mutual, as first she became his lover, then subsequently his fiancée. Having lived together for a number of years they eventually married in 1860. Their relationship however was not a happy one with Siddal's continuing health problems, and Rossetti's sexual philandering; their marriage had begun to flounder within a short time. After two years of increasing marital stress, Rossetti arrived home one day to discover his Elizabeth dying.

She had misjudged the strength of a draft of Laudanum, and had fatally poisoned herself. As she lay peacefully in her open coffin in the sitting room of their house in Highgate village, Rossetti tenderly placed a collection of love poems against her cheek. Elizabeth took these words with her to the grave. It was seven years later when Rossetti's artistic and literary reputation had begun to wane, perhaps due to his increasing addiction to Whisky that this strange story took an even stranger twist. In an attempt to bring his client back into the public eye, Rossetti's literary agent suggested that the love poems should be retrieved from Elizabeth's grave. And so with an Exhumation Order signed, the Rossetti family tomb resounded to the sound of picks and shovels once more. To ensure that no member of the public witnessed the event the grave was opened after dark, a large bonfire lit the ghoulish scene. Those who were present, and that did not include the brave Mr Rossetti, gasped as the last screw was removed and the casket opened. Elizabeth’s features were perfectly preserved; she seemed to have merely slept for the seven years since her burial.

The manuscripts were carefully removed, after which the casket was re-buried. After first being disinfected the manuscripts were returned to Rossetti. The love poems were published shortly after but they were not the literary success expected and the whole episode haunted Rossetti for the rest of his short life. Museums View our interactive map of Museums in Britain for details of local galleries and museums. Getting here Highgate is easily accessible by road or rail, please try our UK Travel Guide for further information. 1883: The death of Karl Marx Der Sozialdemokrat March 22 1883 Karl Marx's Funeral Der Sozialdemokrat, March 22, 1883 On Saturday, March 17, Marx was laid to rest in Highgate Cemetery, in the same grave in which his wife had been buried fifteen months earlier. At the graveside Gottlieb Lemke laid two wreaths with red ribbons on the coffin in the name of the editorial board and dispatching service of the Sozialdemokrat and in the name of the London Communist Workers' Educational Society.

Frederick Engels then made the following speech in English: "On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone for scarcely two minutes, and when we came back we found him in his armchair, peacefully gone to sleep-but forever. "An immeasurable loss has been sustained both by the militant proletariat of Europe and America, and by historical science, in the death of this man. The gap that has been left by the departure of this mighty spirit will soon enough make itself felt.

"Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.; that therefore the production of the immediate material means of subsistence and consequently the degree of economic development attained by a given people or during a given epoch form the foundation upon which the state institutions, the legal conceptions, art, and even the ideas on religion, of the people concerned have been evolved, and in the light of which they must, therefore, be explained, instead of vice versa, as had hitherto been the case. "But that is not all. Marx also discovered the special law of motion governing the present-day capitalist mode of production and the bourgeois society that this mode of production has created. The discovery of surplus value suddenly threw light on the problem, in trying to solve which all previous investigations, of both bourgeois economists and socialist critics, had been groping in the dark. "Two such discoveries would be enough for one lifetime. Happy the man to whom it is granted to make even one such discovery.

But in every single field which Marx investigated -- and he investigated very many fields, none of them superficially -- in every field, even in that of mathematics, he made independent discoveries. "Such was the man of science. But this was not even half the man. Science was for Marx a historically dynamic, revolutionary force. However great the joy with which he welcomed a new discovery in some theoretical science whose practical application perhaps it was as yet quite impossible to envisage, he experienced quite another kind of joy when the discovery involved immediate revolutionary changes in industry and in historical development in general. For example, he followed closely the development of the discoveries made in the field of electricity and recently those of Marcel Deprez. "For Marx was before all else a revolutionist. His real mission in life was to contribute, in one way or another, to the overthrow of capitalist society and of the state institutions which it had brought into being, to contribute to the liberation of the modern proletariat, which he was the first to make conscious of its own position and its needs, conscious of the conditions of its emancipation. Fighting was his element. And he fought with a passion, a tenacity and a success such as few could rival.

His work on the first Rheinische Zeitung (1842), the Paris Vorw?rts! (1844), Br?sseler Deutsche Zeitung (1847), the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1848-49), the New York Tribune (1852-61), and in addition to these a host of militant pamphlets, work in organisations in Paris, Brussels and London, and finally, crowning all, the formation of the great International Working Men's Association -- this was indeed an achievement of which its founder might well have been proud even if he had done nothing else. "And, consequently, Marx was the best-hated and most calumniated man of his time. Governments, both absolutist and republican, deported him from their territories. Bourgeois, whether conservative or ultra-democratic, vied with one another in heaping slanders upon him. All this he brushed aside as though it were cobweb, ignoring it, answering only when extreme necessity compelled him.

And he died beloved, revered and mourned by millions of revolutionary fellow-workers -- from the mines of Siberia to California, in all parts of Europe and America -- and I make bold to say that though he may have had many opponents he had hardly one personal enemy. "His name will endure through the ages, and so also will his work!" Then Marx's son-in-law Longuet read the following addresses which had been received in French. I. On the Grave of Karl Marx from the Russian Socialists "In the name of all Russian socialists I send a last farewell greeting to the outstanding Master among all the socialists of our times. One of the greatest minds has passed away, one of the most energetic fighters against the exploiters of the proletariat has died. "The Russian socialists bow before the grave of the man who sympathised with their strivings in all the fluctuations of their terrible struggle, a struggle which they shall continue until the final victory of the principles of the social revolution. The Russian language was the first to have a translation of Capital that gospel of contemporary socialism. The students of the Russian universities were the first to whose lot it fell to hear a sympathetic exposition of the theories of the mighty thinker whom we have now lost.

Even those who were opposed to the founder of the International Working Men's Association in respect of practical questions of organisation were obliged always to bow before his comprehensive knowledge and lofty power of thought which penetrated the substance of modern capital, the development of the economic forms of society and the dependence of the whole history of mankind on those forms of development. Even the most vehement opponents that he found in the ranks of the revolutionary socialists could not but obey the call that he and his lifelong friend sent into the world 35 years ago: "'Proletarians of All Countries, Unite!' "The death of Karl Marx is mourned by all who have been able to grasp his thought and appreciate his influence upon our time. "I allow myself to add that it will be still more deeply mourned by those who associated closely with Marx, especially by those who loved him as a friend. "P. Lavrov." II. TELEGRAM "The Paris branch of the French Workers' Party expresses its grief at the loss of the thinker whose materialist conception of history and analysis of capitalist production founded scientific socialism and the present revolutionary communist movement. It also expresses its respect for Marx as a man and its complete agreement with his doctrines. "The Secretary, Lipine." III.

TELEGRAM "In my own name and as a delegate of the Spanish Workers' Party (Madrid Branch), I share the immense grief of the friends and daughters of Marx at the cruel loss of the great Socialist who was the master of us all. Jos? Mesa y Leompart. Paris, March 16, 1883. Then Liebknecht made the following speech in German: "I have come from the heart of Germany to express my love and gratitude to my unforgettable teacher and faithful friend. To my faithful friend! Karl Marx's greatest friend and colleague has just called him the best-hated man of this century. That is true. He was the best-hated but he was also the best-loved. The best-hated by the oppressors and exploiters of the people, the best-loved by the oppressed and exploited, as far as they are conscious of their position. The oppressed and exploited people love him because he loved them. For the deceased whose loss we are mourning was great in his love as in his hatred. His hatred had love as its source. He was a great heart as he was a great mind. All who knew him know that.

"But I am here not only as a pupil and a friend, I am here as the representative of the German Social-Democrats who have charged me with expressing their feelings for their teacher, for the man who created our party, as much as one can speak of creating in this connection. "It would be out of place here to indulge in fine speeches. For nobody was a more vehement enemy of phrase-mongering than Karl Marx. It is precisely his immortal merit that he freed the proletariat, the working people's party, from phrases and gave it the solid foundation of science that nothing can shake. A revolutionary in science and a revolutionary through science, he scaled the highest peak of science in order to come down to the people and to make science the common good of the people. "Science is the liberator of humanity. "The natural sciences free us from God. But God in heaven still lives on although science has killed him. "The science of society that Marx revealed to the people kills capitalism, and with it the idols and masters of the earth who will not let God die as long as they live. "Science is not German.

It knows no barriers, and least of all the barriers of nationality It was therefore natural that the creator of Capital should also become the creator of the International Working Men's Association. "The basis of science, which we owe to Marx, puts us in a position to resist all attacks of the enemy and to continue with ever-increasing strength the fight which we have undertaken. "Marx changed the Social-Democracy from a sect, a school, into a party, the party which is now fighting undaunted and which will be victorious. "And that is true not only of us Germans. Marx belongs to the proletariat. It was to the proletariat of all countries that his life was dedicated. Proletarians who can think and do think in all countries have grateful reverence for him. "It is a heavy blow that has fallen on us. But we do not mourn. The deceased is not dead. He lives in the heart, he lives in the head of the proletariat. His memory will not perish, his doctrine will be effective in ever broader circles.

"Instead of mourning, let us act in the spirit of the great man who has died and strive with all our strength so that the doctrine which he taught and for which he fought will be put into practice as soon as possible. That is the best way to honour his memory! "Deceased, living friend, we shall follow to the final aim you showed us. We swear it on your grave!" Besides those mentioned there were also present at the grave, among others, Karl Marx's other son-in-law, Paul Lafargue, Friedrich Lessner, who was sentenced at the Cologne Communist Trial in 1852 to five years' imprisonment in a fortress, and G. Lochner, also an old member of the Communist League. The natural sciences were represented by two celebrities of the first magnitude, the zoologist Professor Ray Lankester and the chemist Professor Schorlemmer, both members of the London Academy of Sciences (Royal Society). Signed: Fr. Engels Highgate Cemetery Highgate Cemetery Help us One of England’s greatest treasures Highgate Cemetery has some of the finest funerary architecture in the country.

It is a place of peace and contemplation where a romantic profusion of trees, memorials and wildlife flourish Plan a burial or memorial Opening times Open daily except Christmas day and Boxing day. Different opening arrangements apply to the East and West. The hours below are those for November to February. East Cemetery The East Cemetery is where Karl Marx is buried. Visitors may roam freely on this side, but there is an entrance charge. Monday to Friday: 10am to 4pm last admission 3.30pm Weekends and public holidays: 11am to 4pm last admission 3.30pm We may close for short periods to facilitate funerals. In addition, for your safety, strong winds or icy weather may occasionally require us to close the cemetery to visitors. Admission: £4 adults, children under 18 and Members free. School groups £1 per child. Find out more about the East Cemetery including our occasional tours. West Cemetery Admission to the West Cemetery is by guided tour only. For further information and to book, see the 'Tours' section at Visit > West Cemetery Planning ahead?

From March to October inclusive the East Cemetery closes at 5pm, with last admission at 4.30pm, and at weekends the last West tour of the day leaves at 4pm. From November to February inclusive the East Cemetery closes at 4pm, with last admission at 3.30pm, and at weekends the last West tour of the day leaves at 3pm. How to get here Download our handy map By tube ARCHWAY tube, High Barnet branch, Northern line. (Don’t go to Highgate tube – it's a much longer walk!). Take the Highgate Hill exit. Then either take a bus (210,143, 271) two stops to Waterlow Park or walk up Highgate Hill. It’s then a very pleasant five minute stroll through Waterlow Park to our gates. The tube system is often affected by engineering works and station closures. Please check your journey in advance at . By bus C2 stops at Parliament Hill Fields. C11 stops at Brookfield Park. Buses 143, 210 and 271 stop at Waterlow Park on Highgate Hill. By road There is no off-street visitor parking.

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Registered in England No. 3157806. Registered office Swain’s Lane, London N6 6PJ BBC - History - Historic Figures: Karl Marx (1818 - 1883) Historic Figures z Karl Marx © A hugely influential revolutionary thinker and philosopher, Marx did not live to see his ideas carried out in his own lifetime, but his writings formed the theoretical base for modern international communism. Karl Heinrich Marx was born on 5 May 1818 in Trier in western German, the son of a successful Jewish lawyer. Marx studied law in Bonn and Berlin, but was also introduced to the ideas of Hegel and Feuerbach. In 1841, he received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena. In 1843, after a short spell as editor of a liberal newspaper in Cologne, Marx and his wife Jenny moved to Paris, a hotbed of radical thought. There he became a revolutionary communist and befriended his life long collaborator, Friedrich Engels. Expelled from France, Marx spent two years in Brussels, where his partnership with Engels intensified.

They co-authored the pamphlet 'The Communist Manifesto' which was published in 1848 and asserted that all human history had been based on class struggles, but that these would ultimately disappear with the victory of the proletariat. In 1849, Marx moved to London, where he was to spend the remainder of his life. For a number of years, his family lived in poverty but the wealthier Engels was able to support them to an increasing extent. Gradually, Marx emerged from his political and spiritual isolation and produced his most important body of work, 'Das Kapital'. The first volume of this 'bible of the working class' was published in his lifetime, while the remaining volumes were edited by Engels after his friend's death. In his final years, Karl Marx was in creative and physical decline. He spent time at health spas and was deeply distressed by the death of his wife, in 1881, and one of his daughters. He died on 14 March 1883 and was buried at Highgate Cemetery in London.

Question: Where is Karl Marx buried?
Answer: Highgate Cemetery